BlackBerry App World Stats Released by Distimo

I always have fun perusing the monthly Distimo report on all of the application storefronts. The latest report was just released and it focuses on how prevalent games are in each store. RIM is more or less tied for last place with Palm when it comes to games but hopefully that will change soon with the PlayBook and the QNX OS.

Once again they are also showing the top paid and free apps in App World and I am happy to report that Bellshare took the top paid app place with BeBuzz. Sadly second and third place in the paid category were taken by a memory booster and a idiotic one touch flashlight app. Another interesting thing to note is that RIM makes a huge percentage of the top 10 free BlackBerry apps.

I never have understood what value RIM derives from their own apps being listed on the Top Free list. Are they afraid of what WOULD be listed otherwise? Seems to me a jab at the rest of the free app developer community, none of whom have the resources or experience that RIM has.